Dreams
 

I may be unusual, or not, but I have vivid dreams, and I have trouble distinguishing between dreams and reality.

Example 1: I used to ride my bike for long bike rides - 30-70 miles. In my dream, there is a path through the woods where many people bike. It is beautiful. I have biked there many times. Only after several dreams did I realize that the place does not exist.

Example 2: We remodeled a house in the Montrose area of Houston, Texas. That is for real. But in my dreams there was this other house. Much more complex in the floor plan. We worked on it in my dreams, and in each dream we did a bit more. It was very difficult for me to remember that the place never existed.

Anybody else in this category???

Perhaps it does.

Just like the song, you may be right, or you may be crazy.

Actually, unless the experience is directly interfering with your life and ability to do stuff, chalk it up to extremely vivid powers of visualization.

Well..I was ready to say "thanks for the link, wolf", but then I read the link. Not what I expected, I guess. My only experiences with deja vu are stories my parents told me about things I said when I was around 4 and 5 years old, about being places before and about "when I was a little boy"...I personally have never really believed in reincarnation, but then again, it would seem to explain some things.. Not to derail the dreams thread.....
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You just wont believe this but....

I had this strong feeling of having read this thread before....even though it's new.

Then while reading the link, had a waking dream that I was having an epileptic seizure. Very strange.

And THEN..... THOUGHT that I woke up some time later to a strong woman smiling with black gloves on at some unknown state facility.

And THEN...was convinced that I was somehow connected telepathically with Saddam Hussein, Rush Limballs, Kofi Annan, God, some hijacker, and a football player.

Just a vivid dream.....or some parallel dimension?

Nope, just the residual effects of some of the shit you drank in the Philippines :yelsick:

That one was real.

I've remember things from when I was little (3-4 years old) and I am not sure whether they are real memories or memories of dreams.

I remember that some people call me the Space Cowboy, some call me the Gangster of Love, and some people call me Maurice

'coz you speak of the pompetous of love? :heartpump

What the hell is pompetous, anyway. :confused: I tried miriam-webster on-line and got:

Isn't that plagerism?

Yes joelnwil i have the same kind of dreams about my home town. In my dream it is different, usually much bigger, but from dream to dream it is always the same, sometimes i am unsure if a certain part of my town really exists or is the dream version.

Here is a thought.
If it is true that dreams are your brains way doing a sorting process by separating that which is destined for long term memory from that which needs to be discarded: Does this mean that people who dont remember their dreams are spending all their time with thoughts that need to be discarded?

I don't remember many of my dreams, lately, and I've read it has mostly to do with the phase of your sleep cycle that you wake up in. I notice that if I wake up without an alarm, I tend to remember at least one of the dreams from the night, but during my normal work week I usually wake up completely blank.

Keeping a dream notebook next to the bed helps. I try to write down the really strange or interesting ones.

I don't remember my dreams. I'm usually too busy sleeping.:p

I will though if something is bothering me but that is a very rare thing.


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joelnwil
um. yer teasing right??

The weird dreams are the only ones I ever remember. *shudder* And one of them I'd just as soon not repeat...

If your assumption is correct, it explains a lot about how my brain works.

I rarely dream.

My head is a random collection of ill-sorted information.

Last week we need the phone number of an emergency room that we call maybe once every two months. Three people were scrabbling through directories to find it and I rattled it off.

I can't remember my own cell phone number without checking my business cards.

Tonight, there was a piece of paper with a social security number and date of birth on it. No name. My coworker read off the DOB and I said "Straight-John, give that to Homo-John, that's Mr. Overdose."

The names of my coworkers and patient have been changed to protect the guilty, however, we really do call them Straight and Homo to distinguish them when they are working on the same shift. This is at the Homo's request. The Straight puts up with it.

I thought rtexanssane was very interesting too!

@Ridgeplate

Speaking of nightmares. I had one of those old fashioned kiddy kind. The ones that look like old B monster movies and they are out to eat you. Or maybe Midnight by Dean Koonz. Same principle.

Guess it depends. I take an anti-depressant that either causes me to dream infrequently or else not remember my dreams. I muddle around and forget EVERYTHING just about. Maybe, also, my brain has given up on dreaming because the hard wiring is gone to put down long term memories. Its funny how I can remember some things pretty good, although I could never pull of Wolf's feats with numbers, and other things I just draw a blank on.

Faces and numbers, new streets or topography - anything to do with shapes continue to be my nemesis. I can find my way around a back country road that I was down thirty years ago, but don't ask me to go out east of town where they've been building like mad. I'll drive in circles for hours, completely lost. Words and conversations, I'm much better at, but I can't remember who I talked with. :3_eyes:

I don't take anything and I am still that way mari!

I get lost reading the lines on my palms even!:P

Sky, my antidepressent is not responsible for my spatial woes. I suffered from chronic carbon monoxide poisoning for years, and have been left with some wierd neurological twists, as a result, My verbals skills were largely spared, but I score in the lower 1% on spatial tasks and spatial memory. Yet, on some verbal tasks I score in the upper 1%. Its the wierdest damn thing to have happen, but I am slowly adjusting to it, and finding ways I can utilize the strenghts I have remaining to me, while compensating for the weaknesses.

That's good mari. Or not ...hum. There is something called 'Brain Gym' There are certain things you can do to make new pathways. Any thing that excersise right brain activity such as ,Art,Music, puzzles ect.

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I had a dream night before last. I cut Tom Cruise off in traffic. He became enraged.He wanted to kill me so I was running around town finding buildings to hide in.


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Last night I had a lovely dream and I slept in until 8 am. That was nice :)

Wow, and I thought 'whisper down the lane' was just a party game.

puppetutes - pompitious - pompatus

I had a dream night before last. I cut Tom Cruise off in traffic. He became enraged.He wanted to kill me so I was running around town finding buildings to hide in.



This is a repeat dream. I have had three nightmares since joining this site. One of the people here my psychie thinks is a Tom Cruise kinda character.

Tom Cruise= unstable ego maniac

I was recently thinking this, and then I saw it in print somewhere.

Tom Cruise is the new Michael Jackson. He's fallen that far.

Prediction: If his new Mission Impossible 3 movie doesn't do well, his career is over. That would be a win for all of us.

edit: And it's too bad that this place is giving you nightmares. I've never heard that one before.

I don't know if I would go as far as to say Micheal Jackoson. At least I wouldn't be afraid of M.J. flying off the handle.

What happened to Tom Cruise? I have MI one and two but I don't think I can watch him anymore. Not without feeling somekind of cringing pain.

I'll probably see it because of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laurence Fishburne. Apparently there's a scene where Hoffman punches Cruise, and test audiences applauded.

I have recently applied for a job in a different city. (Recently = if they have any interest I should get a phone call or an email any day now.)

Last night in my dream I drove to this other city with my family for the job interview. There were four candidates there in a waiting room type situation. The other three were called in for their interviews. After the third was finished the woman in charge announced that they were hiring the second one and that the rest of us should go home. When I asked her if she could explain why they weren't even going to interview me, she just chuckled and went back in her office.

Has anyone done Lucid Dreaming? When I was a young teen my older brothers were reading about it. They suggested that I keep a dream journal and try to figure out what was unique about my dreams, that would make me realize that I was dreaming.

After a short time, I realized that the colors were way off in my dreams. On night I dreamt I was in my middle school auditorium, and the stairs were pink (theyre actually gray). So, I realized I was dreaming and at that point I could do what I want. So of course I went for a little fly...but then woke up almost immidiately.

After that night, I hardly ever remembered my dreams. Im not sure if it was connected or not, but it may have been.

Now that Ive read this, Ill have to try to start paying attention to when I remember dreams...whether or not it depends on if I woke up on my own or not...

About the initial topic of this thread... Ive had a few dreams where Ive really had to think about it to figure out whether or not the events int he dream really happened. Very rare ...and usually only when waking up do I feel that way... but one was significant. In my dream, I dreamt that I killed a kid from my school that was making fun of me and I hid his body...every once and a while during the few weeks after the dream, I would get this really scary feeling that I did something and I might get caught. I knew I didnt do it, but the dream really followed me..

I read a couple books about lucid dreaming years and years ago, but I never was able to actually do it.

Did you do a journal steve? If so for how long?

No, that would be like "work" or "effort" or "self-discipline." (I'm sure that had something to do with my lack of success....)

Steve : possibly :) , but I understand how that can be a deterrent lol...